Floating-battery

(flot'ing-.) (Nav.) A ship of war razeed, made shot-proof, and armed with heavy ordnance; -they are mostly used in the defence of harbors, ., and for covering troops landing on an enemy's coast. F. BREAKWATER. (Civ. Engin.) A marine contrivance, | Flores, consisting of a series of square wooden frames, connected by mooring chains or cables, and intended to form the bulwark of a basin for ships against heavy seas outside. Flor'es, -F. BRIDGE. (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper part of which projects beyond the lower. It is capable of being moved forward by pulleys, and is used for Floret, transporting troops over narrow trenches, ., in attacking the outworks of a fortified place. Florian [s. 369]